He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.
History is written by the winners.